EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Three days after a father was murdered while reportedly trying to protect his daughter from smugglers, police in Juarez, Mexico, still have no suspects in custody.
The shooting happened Saturday inside a house where Chihuahua state police said eight migrants from Mexico, India and Bangladesh were being kept there against their will.
Chihuahua state police said they found the body of Alberto C.T., 42, lying on the ground with apparent gunshot wounds. They also located another seven migrants who apparently fled while Alberto C.T. fought with smugglers who had kept them locked up for four days.
Police also recovered a .45-caliber gun and spent bullet casings from the scene, the Chihuahua Attorney General said in a statement.
The surviving migrants included two men from India, ages 18 and 25, and a teenager from Bangladesh. The other four migrants were Mexican citizens including the 45-year-old wife and 19-year-old daughter of the deceased, all from Puebla, Mexico.
They were taken to the offices of Mexico’s National Migration Institute. INM typically releases Mexican citizens or takes them to the local bus station. Foreign nationals are usually transported to southern Mexico.
Juarez police at the scene on Saturday told Border Report news partner ProVideo the deadly confrontation may have started after the smugglers “consumed drugs and alcohol” and made advances toward Alberto C.T.’s daughter.
Witnesses told police they last saw Alberto C.T. trading punches with multiple armed smugglers inside the house.
ProVideo in Juarez, Mexico, contributed to this report.
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